May 23,
2004, Sunday
3:00 pm
Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University
7th floor, 431 S. Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605-1208
For more information, or to purchase tickets, please
contact The Chicago Mahlerites at tickets@chicago-mahlerites.org
Thomas E. Bauer, baritone
Uta Hielscher, piano
Recital
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Thomas E. Bauer and Uta Hielscher are guest artists
at renowned concert series such as the Schleswig
Holstein Music Festival, the Bonn International
Beethoven Festival, the Académies Musicales Saintes,
the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, the Toblach Mahler
Festival Weeks, the Octobre Musical Tunis etc.
This exciting duo, who have been hailed in Germany
as "the new dream couple of Lieder" and
who the Brussels newspaper Le Soir simply called
"a revelation", are currently involved in
a project of that will see them recording all of
Robert Schumann's 250 Lieder.
They have recorded three CD's on the Ars Musici
label, including the Rückert Lieder and
Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Their 10-CD
edition of Schumann Lieder will soon be released on
Naxos International. Mr. Bauer is working on current
projects with celebrated conductors like Philippe
Herreweghe, Frieder Bernius, HK Gruber, Marcus
Creed, Christoph Poppen, Hanns-Martin Schneidt and
their orchestras, and is performing in the
Philharmonie of Munich and Berlin, at the Leipzig
Gewandhaus, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Amsterdam
Concertgebouw and the Palais des Beaux Arts
Bruxelles, among others.
"…As for the guest singer from Germany,
Thomas Bauer, one has to admit that a
"Lieder" singer of this stature does not
appear in Israel very often…"
Hagai Hitron, Ha'aretz,Israel 28.11.2003
In her SWR talk, Eleonore Büning calls them the
"new Lieder dream couple".
In
addition to Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, Wunderhornlieder,
and Rückert Lieder, this recital will
feature the much-neglected works of Alma Mahler.
Alma Mahler wrote many songs, but most were not
published, and the manuscripts were destroyed in the
bombing of Vienna during the Second World War.
However, there are sixteen surviving songs in four
books, three of which were published in her
lifetime: Five songs in 1910 and four songs in 1915
(both books were published by Universal Edition).
Josef Weinberger published another five songs in
1924; and in 2000, Hildegard Publishing of Bryn Mawr,
Pennsylvania, published two more songs, with Dr.
Susan Filler serving as the editor. The first three
books of songs were subsequently reprinted by
Universal Edition about fifteen years ago, but Dr.
Herta Blaukopf – who wrote the introduction for
that collection – made no attempt to find other
sources and compare them with the published prints.
We are fortunate that a manuscript of the four songs
published in 1915 is in the collection of Prof.
Henry-Louis de la Grange, and Dr. Susan Filler of
The Chicago Mahlerites has made the critical edition
of those four songs based on a comparison of the
published and manuscript sources. The manuscript
itself combines the hands of Alma and Gustav Mahler,
but the differences between the two versions are
quite extensive, it therefore represents the changes
made by Alma between Mahler’s death in 1911 and
the publication in 1915. All sixteen surviving songs
written by Alma Mahler are for Mittelstimme
("middle voice") and piano.
The Chicago Mahlerites is therefore excited to
present to the audience in the Chicago area the
world premiere performance of the critical edition
of these four songs by Alma Mahler, in this rare
event featuring the works of both Mahlers.
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